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Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Tessé
Nismes. Mar. 20. 1787.

Would you believe Madam, that in this 18th. century, in France, under the reign of Louis XVI, they are at this moment pulling down the circular wall of this superb remain to pave a road? And that too from a hill which is itself an entire mass of stone just as fit, & more accessible, a former Intendant, a Monsr de Baville has rendered his memory dear to travelers & amateurs by the pains he took to preserve & to restore these monuments of antiquity. The present one (I do not know who he is) is demolishing the object to make a good road to it.